Collections, Historical & Miscellaneous, and Monthly Literary Journal, Volumen3J.B. Moore, 1824 |
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... council and assembly a committee of safety , and he took his seat with the committee the 20th of that month . This was , perhaps , the highest trust in the gift of the General Court , and was committed to none but men of tried ...
... council and assembly a committee of safety , and he took his seat with the committee the 20th of that month . This was , perhaps , the highest trust in the gift of the General Court , and was committed to none but men of tried ...
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... Council and Assembly in committee of the whole . One of them was the redeeming and calling in of the paper currency emitted by this State , hy means of the issue of Treasury notes bearing interest and founded on the faith and credit of ...
... Council and Assembly in committee of the whole . One of them was the redeeming and calling in of the paper currency emitted by this State , hy means of the issue of Treasury notes bearing interest and founded on the faith and credit of ...
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... Council . His retirement may be considered voluntary , for he gave notice in the papers of the day , that he should , in future , decline all public trusts . After this long catalogue of the many important offices he had sustained , no ...
... Council . His retirement may be considered voluntary , for he gave notice in the papers of the day , that he should , in future , decline all public trusts . After this long catalogue of the many important offices he had sustained , no ...
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... council , dismissed Dec. 9 , 1776 : but continued in town a very useful , respectable and exemplary citizen till his death , Sept. 23 , 1813 , at the age of 77 years . In 1763 , the Rev. NATHANIEL Noyes was ordained at SouthHampton ...
... council , dismissed Dec. 9 , 1776 : but continued in town a very useful , respectable and exemplary citizen till his death , Sept. 23 , 1813 , at the age of 77 years . In 1763 , the Rev. NATHANIEL Noyes was ordained at SouthHampton ...
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... council to govern the province , of which Dudley was president , and Randolph was one , named in the commission . The next year , Sir Edmund Andros arrived with a commission to be governor of New - England . Randolph was a conspicuous ...
... council to govern the province , of which Dudley was president , and Randolph was one , named in the commission . The next year , Sir Edmund Andros arrived with a commission to be governor of New - England . Randolph was a conspicuous ...
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Página 76 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Página 337 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Página 40 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. By T. BOWDLEB, Esq. FRS New Edition, in Volumes for the Pocket ; with 36 Wood Engravings, from Designs by Smirke, Howard, and other Artists.
Página 349 - Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honor of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia...
Página 45 - English Traits;" "The Conduct of Life;" "May-Day and other Poems " and " Society and Solitude;" besides many others. He was a prominent member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society and other kindred associations.
Página 85 - Country men, let not the meannesse of the word fish distaste you, for it will afford as good gold as the Mines of Guiana or Potassie, with lesse hazard and charge, and more certainty and facility.
Página 208 - I proceed to lay it down as a rule, that one man of discernment is better fitted to analise and estimate the peculiar qualities adapted to particular offices, than a body of men of equal, or perhaps even of superior discernment. The sole and undivided responsibility of one man will naturally beget a livelier sense of duty and a more exact regard to reputation.
Página 141 - A severe and proud dame she was ; bestowing every day in dressing herself near as much time as any of the gentry of the land : powdering her hair and painting her face, going with her necklaces, with jewels in her ears, and bracelets upon her hands. When she had dressed herself, her work was to make girdles of wampum and beads.
Página 112 - I fell a weeping; which was the first time, to my remembrance, that I wept before them. Although I had met with so much affliction, and my heart was many times ready to break, yet could I not shed one tear in their sight, but rather had been all this while in a maze, and like one astonished ; but now I may say as Psal. 137 : 1, — " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Página 144 - She had a kersey coat, covered with girdles of wampum from the loins upward. Her arms, from her elbows to her hands, were covered with bracelets ; there were handfuls of necklaces about her neck, and several sorts of jewels in her ears. She had fine red stockings and white shoes, her hair powdered and her face painted red, that was always before black.